Re: NSScroller, NSBrowser and some issues

[Adam Fedor]

Pete French wrote:
> > OK, now I'm thinking the pattern was just done to make it look good on a 
> > gray-scale monitor and perhaps if NeXT was written using the higher 
> > resolution monitors of today it would have been solid.
>
>
> That a very inetersting observation though - because it implies that the
> PostScript being generated when the object is sent a 'print' method is
> different to that hen it is being drawn to the screen. Whatever happened
> to WYSIWYG in that case :-)

Well perhaps I'm just guessing. setpattern is a level 2 operator which 
was pretty advanced for many printers at that time.

After reading more, I realized the equivalent in OpenStep is to paint 
with a color using:

+[NSColor colorWithPatternImage:]


> -bat.
>
> PS: Does GNUstep actually print ? I saw a lot of PPD files go by in the install
>     which suprised me as all my 'print' messages end up generating a PS file
>     with only comments in it.

Sort of. It could be a lot better. It doesn't print to a printer, but it 
does to a PS file. It should print text and graphics OK, maybe images. I 
want to add CUPS support eventually also... So much to do...


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